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November 6, 2006, Monday

A judge in Calcasieu Parish has ordered Wilbert Rideau, a convicted killer who was released in January after a fourth trial reduced his sentence, to pay trial costs that are likely to total $127,000, his lawyer said. The judge, David A. Ritchie of...

January 17, 2005, Monday

Wilbert Rideau, an acclaimed prison journalist and confessed killer, walked out of the Calcasieu Parish Courthouse in Lake Charles, La., a free man on Saturday night after serving 44 years for stabbing a bank teller through the heart in 1961.

To the Editor: Daniel Bergner (''When Forever Is Far Too Long,'' Op-Ed, June 17) suggests that sentences of life without parole do not consider the ''spectacular changes we as human beings can sometimes accomplish.''